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Thursday, July 3, 2014

[Review] f(x)'s "Red Light"

I have never, ever been more mortified by a song since SNSD released that tragic rhapsody entitled "I Got a Personality Disorder Boy", but f(x) have taken the cake when it comes to "Red Light". Listening to "Red Light" is like having a high powered, electric drill in my ear whilst listening to a castrated goat attempting to Yodle with a side of Princess Peach being bludgeoned to death by Luigi Mario. It took me a whole a hour to gather my scrambled brains together after putting myself through the voluntary torture of listening to this song so I could bring you all this review and heed warning as to what you might encounter if you do press "play" on the above video.

I am here to lead you not into temptation, but deliver you from evil.

"Red Light" combines all the aneurysm-inducing aspects of IGAB and 2NE1's "Come Back Home", which wouldn't sound so diabolically bad if they didn't pump it up on Molly. The song lacks any form of cohesion and is a convoluted mess - it's basically another one of SM's failed attempts at emulating Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". But, as seen with I Got a Brain Disorder and Ulf, the song is utter dog piss.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that this is SM's second attempt at making IGAB, because f(x) have been releasing this sort of dementor shit for a long time, but before it actually worked as there was some cohesiveness to their songs. This, this is just a mess. SM have finally succeeded in releasing something more awful than Kyrary Pamyu Pamyu's "Candy, Candy", which was nauseatingly bad. This song leaves me feeling like a dementia patient.

The pre-chorus and bridge were really wasted on this song and could have made an entirely different, but listenable, track.

Audio aside, the music video is like some sort of devil-worshipping, satanic shit that I just LOVE. The girls look great, and even Amber doesn't look repugnant because her styling and the music videos settings prevent her from sticking out like a sore thumb. I suggest watching the music video on mute because the girls look hot (especially Victoria, I wish I had her legs they are amazing). Luna's hair cut, weight loss and boob job also really added to the visuals of the music video.

I AM JUST SO GLAD THAT SM STUCK WITH ORIGINAL CONCEPT, BECAUSE FUCK IS IT GOOD!

Sadly though, the song fucking sucks and I will be sure to delete it once I download the album. Now, if the album isn't as good (or better than "Pink Tape") I am hitting the SM building with a helluva lot of TNT. I'll make sure to hit e*o whilst I'm on my jihad.

Here are some smoking hot gifs of f(x) slaying everything to oblivion.

52 comments:

*shrug* I liked the song. It's way better than IGAB in terms of cramming multiple songs into one, and it works for f(x) because like you said they normally do this kind of thing. SNSD has too much of a "clean" and cute image to pull it off.

Anyway yeah the video itself was hot. Probably my favorite of theirs so far. Here's a thigh gap shot to piss off the fat activists.http://i.imgur.com/gHnTrSQ.jpg

Do you think sm told them to try to sound like that, cause I do. I think the vocals is why its kinda off. I like the song, but it is something off. I had no idea they take songs like that and redo them. Cool

The original makes much more sense than that jungle shit they came up with. Red light is about making someone stop their advances, not about stopping while in the jungle and pushing caterpillars around.

The song is much better performed than that atrocity that was I got a boy. Victoria saves the day with her flawless looks. In terms of looks for this comeback Victoria >>>>>> Sulli >>>> Krystal >> Luna >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Manber, but she's still looking prettier than what she has been looking like in their previous concepts.

Song is forgettable but nice, I thought it sounded perfectly coherent and not disjointed at all. Reminds me a bit of M.I.A, I still don't understand why peple are comparing it to IGAB. Personally I think the MV sucks: ringing phones, black cats, burned books, fetish costumes... this sort of screams "I have no idea what I'm gonna do for this video, so let's make a 'Takashii Miike meets the Internet Memes in JAV attires' in order to make the girls yell -ZOMG THIS IS SO ALTERNATIVE111- and the boys masturbate over the 5 members". Unfortunately f(x) is the only kpop group I like I never fapped to, so this just didn't work for me. Plus, that's NO WAY I would ever consider attractive a girl who's wearing a rosary as an hat.

I feel like the problem is that they had too much footage to work with. It seemed like they had this really great drama MV going on, similar to T-ara's Day By Day or EXO's Mama, but when it came time to edit they had to compress the whole thing into a four minute video and ended up with a whole bunch of shots that just confused the viewer. I quite like the song. It's not as good as Wolf but its better than IGAB. And fuck, Sulli as the maid/nurse/nun was so fucking sexy.

Awww damn f(x). This song had great potential up until the pre-chorus. Like, this was the song that 2NE1 dreamed of releasing, and then it turned into awkward, fast paced electronic crap. I blame the composers for even thinking that was a good transition because it clearly wasn't. The girls did a pretty good job with their sound till that point, especially Luna <3This'll take some time getting used to, but I can definitely get behind that beat at the beginning.

In typical SM/F(x) fashion the album is better than the actual title track by fucking miles. I didn't think the song was terrible however it didn't leave me in a "WOW" factor. It kind of just left me in a "What the fuck did I just listen too?" Either way I still think their music is better than SNSD's, IGAB or not. That's just my opinion.

It sounds like dub-step to me. Sorry, I'm not excellent with technical terms. Anyway I listened to it like three more times and I actually kind of love it now, so the above comment doesn't really matter anymore lol.

Despite being jerky and kind of clunky I honestly really like it, it's something different for the group. Although since a lot of other people think it's terrible I'm worried if my bias towards them has clouded my judgement...

I liked Candy Candy, then again I was able to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 in all it's duration without it fazing me. The best part of Red Light is 1:05 to 1:19 imo. The song peaks there, and then falls flat on it's ass from that point on.

hhmm..i actually liked the song and the MV its like a rare good song from SM just like snsd IGAB..its still typically Kpop song, they have they're own colors on doing a song. so if you compared it to a good song from western pop...well you're really not good at judging, sorry..i just really love music and i enjoy listening to them :) btw, there's no bad song, its just our preference that makes us think its a bad song..

Am I the only one who thinks the chorus reminds of Lucifer? I think the same of IGAB, only that this one has the parts even worse merged.

The vocals are totally off. I don't understand why K-Pop idols insist on doing this style of music that, obviously, doesn't suit them. I didn't like any of Big Bang boy's attempts at it either.

The MV is great, but it's also true the idea is a mixture of other groups' MV's, only that visually all the girls, even Amber, look stunning. I just didn't feel their dance parts at the chorus at all, they look awkward.